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ann romney, like michelle obama, are popular figure. that's why their husbands give them prime time addresses during these conventions. julian castro said mitt romney isn't a bad guy. he just doesn't understand how good he's had it. michelle obama was trying to talk about the same story talking about struggles of heifer family, struggles of barack obama, hoping that connects with the vast majority of people out there who are not economically successful and that's where democrats see their majority coming from. >> john, i was watching some of the coverage last night. there was a lot of talk about the idea that the jerusalem plank has been taken out of the democratic platform at this point. how important is that? >> reporter: i don't think terribly important. i don't think that's going to be a focus of -- a focus of the campaign. >> what did -- they took out god or something like that? i saw that on the conservative website. what did they do? it said in god -- did you see that? there's some language removed. >> reporter: i did not see tha
ann romney, like michelle obama, are popular figure. that's why their husbands give them prime time addresses during these conventions. julian castro said mitt romney isn't a bad guy. he just doesn't understand how good he's had it. michelle obama was trying to talk about the same story talking about struggles of heifer family, struggles of barack obama, hoping that connects with the vast majority of people out there who are not economically successful and that's where democrats see their...
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michelle obama will speak. she's very popular figure. more popular than her husband. somebody who has made a big contribution to solidifying his image for values and family and things holding him up on the basis of likability and relatability while the economy is weighing him down. on wednesday you have bill clinton, who will be offering a testal to economic policies. democrats hope to surf on his credibility from his economic stewardship in the 1990s. the last night we have joe biden and president obama. president obama scheduled to speak in a football stadium. don't think he's going to have the same kind of electricity that he had four years ago but they're hoping to get close to it. >> john, there's a headline that some -- that the party is planning to bring out some employees of portfolio companies of bain capital that are going to be speaking at the convention. >> shocker, shocker. of course. these are people who have been featured in television advertisements. yes, they're going to do that. >> any current employees? all former employees? >> i don't know. >> do y
michelle obama will speak. she's very popular figure. more popular than her husband. somebody who has made a big contribution to solidifying his image for values and family and things holding him up on the basis of likability and relatability while the economy is weighing him down. on wednesday you have bill clinton, who will be offering a testal to economic policies. democrats hope to surf on his credibility from his economic stewardship in the 1990s. the last night we have joe biden and...
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wind much like michelle obama's speech about saying don't chase the dollar. >> you need to do it on merit and you need to be able to fire them. >> and that is the sticking point. >> i'm talking about the teachers unions, not the teachers. of course you defend teachers. >> but a good teacher, and the difference between a good teacher and bad teacher a give teacher does not -- >> you can't be fired after two or three years for the rest of your life and you make twice as much as the average person. >> >> i'm not disputing anything i said. i'm just saying the best teachers i ever had, i promise you worked around the clock. just like you do, just like becky does. >> but the difference is that the union -- >> talking about getting summers off and making $71,000 plus $15,000 in benefits versus an average $47,000 -- are you going to say happy camper next? anyway, go ahead. >> the problem is it you're not able to weed out the bad teachers. that's the problem with the teachers union. >> i'm with her and you, by the way. >> you're not. >> we are. >> then i have to change. >> let's take a look at the
wind much like michelle obama's speech about saying don't chase the dollar. >> you need to do it on merit and you need to be able to fire them. >> and that is the sticking point. >> i'm talking about the teachers unions, not the teachers. of course you defend teachers. >> but a good teacher, and the difference between a good teacher and bad teacher a give teacher does not -- >> you can't be fired after two or three years for the rest of your life and you make twice...
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we'll see from the polls after the convention whether that combined with michelle obama and president obama's speech is going to produce a bump. it's a polarized electorate. bumps aren't easy. democrats are happy with last night. >> john, very early on in clinton's speech he really tried to own the obama line about you didn't build it. i thought that was actually somewhat surprising really trying to suggest that actually maybe that line he actually meant the first time around. >> well, democrats do mean it in the sense that not in the way in which republicans have been using it against the president, but they do believe -- i mean, it's the whole theory behind hillary clinton's book "it takes the village." we all remember that. it's the idea that collective action is a big part of our individual success, which is something that when we look at, say, a country like iraq where we've been at war, the emphasis on the rebuilding process is on creating institutions and civil society and rule of law and all the things that allow individual enterprise to prosper. that's the point the democrats
we'll see from the polls after the convention whether that combined with michelle obama and president obama's speech is going to produce a bump. it's a polarized electorate. bumps aren't easy. democrats are happy with last night. >> john, very early on in clinton's speech he really tried to own the obama line about you didn't build it. i thought that was actually somewhat surprising really trying to suggest that actually maybe that line he actually meant the first time around. >>...
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and at lunch they sefsht michelle obama lunch, you get like one asparagus and one sprout, no big gulps. 15.9 ounces of a coke. that is our future. i just saw it. and i don't like it. >> phil is defending it, he said you can take control at anytime, but you don't have to just sit in the car, you can -- >> did you ask him why does a driverless car need to go anywhere? >> i didn't ask that. >> comments or questions, e-mail us. squawk@cnbc.c squawk@cnbc.com. it's like brave new world. i don't like it. coming up, morgan stanley's adam parker, nowhere in his notes does it say how negative he's been. we'll check on his call on markets. last time he was with us. and then larry summers, no shortage of topics to discuss. europe, the u.s. economy, taxes, spending, the fiscal cliff, the dollar. he'll join us live. we're sitting on a bunch of shale gas. there's natural gas under my town. it's a game changer. ♪ it means cleaner, cheaper american-made energy. but we've got to be careful how we get it. design the wells to be safe. thousands of jobs. use the most advanced technology to protect our wa
and at lunch they sefsht michelle obama lunch, you get like one asparagus and one sprout, no big gulps. 15.9 ounces of a coke. that is our future. i just saw it. and i don't like it. >> phil is defending it, he said you can take control at anytime, but you don't have to just sit in the car, you can -- >> did you ask him why does a driverless car need to go anywhere? >> i didn't ask that. >> comments or questions, e-mail us. squawk@cnbc.c squawk@cnbc.com. it's like brave...
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in michelle obama's speech she said it's more important to try than to succeed. it is not how much money you make but how hard you work. >> these are all good platitudes. no one is going to disagree money doesn't help happiness and we want to help people that need help. they put forward all these platitudes as if -- they have the good stances. they want to help children. the republicans don't. they want to help people get education. the republicans don't. they want to help people have retirement. every time they say that -- >> all they want to do is talk about it. look at who they're appealing to, people who don't understand what a profit is. what they don't understand is the people who help people are the people who make the most money because making money is a sign of how many people you helped because you figured out what the consumer wanted and gave it to them at a low price and that is how you got rich. >> as long as there is competition. now it's a global market place. >> it's always been a global market place. >> but our companies need to be as lean as the
in michelle obama's speech she said it's more important to try than to succeed. it is not how much money you make but how hard you work. >> these are all good platitudes. no one is going to disagree money doesn't help happiness and we want to help people that need help. they put forward all these platitudes as if -- they have the good stances. they want to help children. the republicans don't. they want to help people get education. the republicans don't. they want to help people have...
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>> what about michelle obama? >> i think he just cited elizabeth warren's prime time speech. >> but do you have all the good positions, the democrats do. you care about people, not greedy money. you don't want to cut off health care for old people, you you love old people, you care about educating children. and by definition, i guess republicans are on the opposite side of all those positions which is a lousy -- you staked out all the good positions. >> this is working out great. >> it's difficult to run on that platform. >> it's that kind of rhetoric actually that really makes any kind of reform just impossible, right? because any reform of any existing system means that you are by definition, you know, just -- you want to create pottervilles in america by doing anything. >> it's working, though. >> i don't understand that at all. i mean, look, let's bring it down to kind of a reality level here. reform. okay. certainly i feel very strongly that the financial sector needs reform. and financial regulatory reform w
>> what about michelle obama? >> i think he just cited elizabeth warren's prime time speech. >> but do you have all the good positions, the democrats do. you care about people, not greedy money. you don't want to cut off health care for old people, you you love old people, you care about educating children. and by definition, i guess republicans are on the opposite side of all those positions which is a lousy -- you staked out all the good positions. >> this is working...